This song was probably the highlight of my Senior year in choir. It was the first song we were given by our instructor for us to start practicing for our first year in Class AA in the OMEA Adjudications. The song will be with me forever.
Our advanced choir is working on this right now. This song is amazing, I'm so happy to be singing this! 😋 I'm not looking forward to that high note at the end though 😂
I LOVE this performance. The nuances were perfect. Everytime the music went from unison to harmonies it was flawless. This is my first time hearing this choir and I'm a fan. I sang this with my college choir and this interpretation is alot better and the sound is phenomenal. GREAT JOB!!!!!!!
Far and away the most eye- and ear-appealing rendition I've yet seen on YT. This is a great arrangement, and this choir acted, and sang, like they were happy to be singing it! Great dynamics, tempo, pitch- wonderful job! Kudos to that unnamed soprano for nailing that high F#- she had it, and Dr Allred flaunted it (it's not in the score- who would expect to have someone who could hit it?!) Many thanx for sharing this! BTW- 2yawk: Right on! Took the words right outa my head!
Ah what memories this song brings back! I sang this about 24 years ago and when we went on choir tour to Disney World a bunch of us were singing this standing in line for one of the rides. The people around just loved it. Great song and lots of fun to sing!
In 1991, my high school's top choral group, the Sanderson Sandpipers, from Raleigh, NC sang this in Carnegie Hall. We joined about 10 other choirs of the same caliber from around the country to make one large chorus. Singing this in that venue was breathtaking - I still remember to this day having goosebumps all over my body from the mass of voices and the acoustics in that hall. I will never forget it. This is a great performance from an obviously polished and talented college level group!
Absolutely amazing yall this was always one of my favorite songs in choir we never sang it but I'll never forget when another choir sang it. This is the best version I have seen in RUclips! Great work!
such control! no breathiness, no dipthongs, beautiful! i especially love the control when the soprano's and alto's sing 'cut it off!' that burst can be difficult for unseasoned singers, you girls rendered it superbely! ^_^
This is such a fabulous performance of "Witness!" I traveled to Virginia With my school's Music Department and our choir which I am a part of also performed this at the competition. This performance was do beautiful I nearly had tears in my eyes. I especially loved how each one of you had a lot of emotion in your facial expression. Job well done! :) it was a probe large listening to this!
VERY IMPRESSIVE. we did this song this year as well. I'm in the COS choir. We are a community choir in California, we actually have some videos of us on youtube as well. You guys did a fantastic job. I love the high note at the end CRAZY. Well GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!
Did the song in high school back in 1989 as as sophomore and later as a junior. Really hard to find. BTW, I was in a public school in St. Louis County, MO.
BRILLIANT! I especially love the verse about Samson. I was trying to find the Paul Robeson version, couldn't find it, found this instead. RUclips rocks (and so do they - oh man, those Mormons sure can sing).
This is a choral arrangement of a spiritual. Very good performance. Experts take the voices they have to work with and make the intentions of the composers / arrangers appear from the printed pages to the listeners. This is what your director and your choir has done. It is what the arranger wrote. Unfortunately everyone doesn't know what to listen for, yet they are so quick to make comments. Please disregard all pointless comments. BRAVO!!! Oh and by the way, I'm an African American.
I alwayz look for songz that share the same title as mine...I consider myself to be more like Sampson my mom n granddaughter both share June 13 as their birthday love the congruency of the sliding notez in the harmonies wonderful...I love the smiling faces...if we sing w joy we smile...the choir director must be a pleasant jovial focused loving soul...wonderful...
Its eerie how perfect this is...outstanding performance! This arrangement is very similar to the Dandridge version, but that version has the Tenor and Soprano solos. I wish you all wouldve done that arrangement, but this was still a great performance.
we are just now learning this song in choir and im happy to find it on youtube so i can practice the notes;) i have to song it in saprano and gosh is it hard lol
I sang this with The University of Missouri - Columbia, Directed by Dr. David Rayl in 1998-1999...exactly the same interpretation...hmmm. I sang alto, so maybe I was purposefully picking out the part...but I thought the alto section was great, and they kept the pitch where it should be instead of falling (which is often the case for over-blowing alto sections). Great performance Guys!
Makes me miss being in choir. I was a first soprano. I didn't have such a strong voice, but I really want to get better. Considering taking a choir class again sometime...
We sang this in highschool and i think we did it better only because we were not so proper. We workshoped with Dr. Staheli and even he told us not to bite the t in witness so much!
@TheseShoesSoDontFly That note is in the original score; it sounds abrasive on this recording but is actually quite pure and brilliant when heard live :)
That note sounded like one of those little rings that you blow. You know what I'm talking about? You blow into it, and it slides up to a really high pitch and then goes back down?
Such a good piece, I believe the octave F didn't quite fit the rest of the piece, and because it sounded a little forced, it sounded like it was a little flat. I don't have perfect pitch, I don't have a perfect reflection of songs, it's just an opinion/thought. Other than that, it was an amazing performance!
@TheseShoesSoDontFly It didn't come across as showing off to me at all. It went perfectly with everything the song was doing. That choir is blessed to have the voice to sing that note, on pitch, and just lite enough....and a straight tone at that. I thought it was Fantastic!
@VanSensei I was hitting lower than F sharp in 7th grade, and then tenor 1 notes. It's really not too big an accomplishment. Depends on the voices at hand.
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Im a bass in my high school choir and this is my favorite song that we are doing right now
Jesse Dietrich we just did it at temple university at philly
I'm tenor and same, such a good piece
im totally not a bass and totally not looking at a fuck ton of versions of these
Wonderfully done. The "C" in Nicodemus is marvelous. It gets me every time. And that high G'b at the end is stunning :)
This song was probably the highlight of my Senior year in choir. It was the first song we were given by our instructor for us to start practicing for our first year in Class AA in the OMEA Adjudications. The song will be with me forever.
Our advanced choir is working on this right now. This song is amazing, I'm so happy to be singing this! 😋 I'm not looking forward to that high note at the end though 😂
My favorite rendition of this song, the blend of voices and especially the crisp annunciations make this incredible
This is probably arguably the best I have heard on youtube... That last note was great!!
their slides are spectacular! :)
Why is it so quiet at Max volume
Lowercase singing
Every choir video ever
@@tateeames1227 oh my lord
One of the high school choirs I'm in just did this song for sightreading. It's amazing, and I love the way they did this.
GOD THIS JUST SHOWS AGAIN WHY I AM IN ABSOLUTE LOVE WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SINGERS. I. JUST. LOVE. THEM.
I was blessed with the song I'm from Papua New Guinea. My name is Terry
my favorite song ever to perform with my select choir
I LOVE this performance. The nuances were perfect. Everytime the music went from unison to harmonies it was flawless. This is my first time hearing this choir and I'm a fan. I sang this with my college choir and this interpretation is alot better and the sound is phenomenal. GREAT JOB!!!!!!!
Far and away the most eye- and ear-appealing rendition I've yet seen on YT. This is a great arrangement, and this choir acted, and sang, like they were happy to be singing it! Great dynamics, tempo, pitch- wonderful job! Kudos to that unnamed soprano for nailing that high F#- she had it, and Dr Allred flaunted it (it's not in the score- who would expect to have someone who could hit it?!) Many thanx for sharing this!
BTW- 2yawk: Right on! Took the words right outa my head!
Ah what memories this song brings back! I sang this about 24 years ago and when we went on choir tour to Disney World a bunch of us were singing this standing in line for one of the rides. The people around just loved it. Great song and lots of fun to sing!
That final note was amazing!
BaconCat that last high note sounded awful... It's impressive but shouldn't be there
EJ Stephens I'm trying to be positive because all of you jerks keep hating, and I think it was good, personally.
+BaconCat it did sound amazing but the note indeed shouldn't have been there. The piece could've survived alone and had even been better without it
this is one of my favorite chorus songs ever tbh it’s just SO good with all the part
Love the tenor section, not too brought out, but yet you can still hear it, excellent work
This is such a beautiful song.
In 1991, my high school's top choral group, the Sanderson Sandpipers, from Raleigh, NC sang this in Carnegie Hall. We joined about 10 other choirs of the same caliber from around the country to make one large chorus. Singing this in that venue was breathtaking - I still remember to this day having goosebumps all over my body from the mass of voices and the acoustics in that hall. I will never forget it.
This is a great performance from an obviously polished and talented college level group!
Absolutely amazing yall this was always one of my favorite songs in choir we never sang it but I'll never forget when another choir sang it. This is the best version I have seen in RUclips! Great work!
love this choir
had to listen to this in chorus today, and I put it on my playlist. it's a bop.
such control! no breathiness, no dipthongs, beautiful! i especially love the control when the soprano's and alto's sing 'cut it off!' that burst can be difficult for unseasoned singers, you girls rendered it superbely! ^_^
We are doing this song in May for one of our songs for our Spring Concert. It is such a fun song to sing!
Amazing!
EXCELLENT!!!! This is the BEST rendition of this peice on youtube... I did not have to stretch my ear to understand what they are saying. Good job!!!
What a wonderful and beautiful song. We sang it in Germany too many times. Greetings from Old Germany ...
The chamber singers in my high school did this. Love it
Omg that was. Amazing .I hope some day I could do that
This is such a fabulous performance of "Witness!" I traveled to Virginia With my school's Music Department and our choir which I am a part of also performed this at the competition. This performance was do beautiful I nearly had tears in my eyes. I especially loved how each one of you had a lot of emotion in your facial expression. Job well done! :) it was a probe large listening to this!
You can tell when they caught the spirit. Lean into it, children! Joy!
HOORAY! I'm so glad I finally found someone on RUclips who can sing this well! Awesome job! :) 30/5 stars!
amazing work guys.
we are doing this for concert choir :) i love it! i also really want to attend this college, and them having a good choir makes it even better :)
awesome!!!!!! love it!
My choir is doing this song for a concert. I love this recording of it.
I like this version, very nicely done
VERY IMPRESSIVE. we did this song this year as well. I'm in the COS choir. We are a community choir in California, we actually have some videos of us on youtube as well. You guys did a fantastic job. I love the high note at the end CRAZY. Well GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!
Did the song in high school back in 1989 as as sophomore and later as a junior. Really hard to find. BTW, I was in a public school in St. Louis County, MO.
I'm doing this in choir! So excited!
i totally miss choir wow
amazing
did this at my school, awesome song!
This is a great music video! I hope y'all are enjoying choir this term.
I loved singing this song for all parish!
Really good song but the octave up by that one soprano seemed kind of redundant.
the one at the end?
Just my opinion bro
Christopher Carr Agreed
Completely ruined it
right?? it’s a little extra when they take the tempo down for this energetic song
i love this song and this group sings it very well. love it at 1:17
we sang this in our high school choir.
i expected a whole different level from a college choir but... wow
that was amazing
BRILLIANT! I especially love the verse about Samson. I was trying to find the Paul Robeson version, couldn't find it, found this instead. RUclips rocks (and so do they - oh man, those Mormons sure can sing).
we sang this last year for region my faveorite spiritual song
high note at end = jaw dropped! lol crazy high but crazy good
We sang this my senior year of high school in 1994. We weren't this good but we sure had a lot of fun with it.
Awesome!
STUNNING :)
you guys were AMAZING!!!!!! i absolutely LOVED the ending
This is a choral arrangement of a spiritual. Very good performance. Experts take the voices they have to work with and make the intentions of the composers / arrangers appear from the printed pages to the listeners. This is what your director and your choir has done. It is what the arranger wrote. Unfortunately everyone doesn't know what to listen for, yet they are so quick to make comments. Please disregard all pointless comments. BRAVO!!! Oh and by the way, I'm an African American.
Really good
I alwayz look for songz that share the same title as mine...I consider myself to be more like Sampson my mom n granddaughter both share June 13 as their birthday love the congruency of the sliding notez in the harmonies wonderful...I love the smiling faces...if we sing w joy we smile...the choir director must be a pleasant jovial focused loving soul...wonderful...
Singing this in my highschool choir! Fun song :)
im singing this song in my high school choir it is a really fun song
in my school choir we sing witness love that song
We are doing this for our varsity choir piece for contest, its a very awesome song! can be very challenging as well. (:
my school is Miramar High School and we are doing this song this year
Its eerie how perfect this is...outstanding performance! This arrangement is very similar to the Dandridge version, but that version has the Tenor and Soprano solos. I wish you all wouldve done that arrangement, but this was still a great performance.
WOW!!!!!
very very good, good balance
I like this song because in december i have concert in high school.
we are just now learning this song in choir and im happy to find it on youtube so i can practice the notes;) i have to song it in saprano and gosh is it hard lol
Our standard 7/8th grade mixed choir is doing and I love singing it, it's such a hard song
Legendary Precision how do you have tenor/ bass in middle school, who can even hit those low notes at that age lmao
Our junior high and the high schoolers are mixing so our high schoolers just carry us but yes it’s very hard especially if your a soprano.
Best choir in the USA right now!
Did this song in high school 20 years ago and still remember every note. Great rendition even with the unnecessary high note at the end.
I sang this with The University of Missouri - Columbia, Directed by Dr. David Rayl in 1998-1999...exactly the same interpretation...hmmm. I sang alto, so maybe I was purposefully picking out the part...but I thought the alto section was great, and they kept the pitch where it should be instead of falling (which is often the case for over-blowing alto sections). Great performance Guys!
Go tenors!
Makes me miss being in choir. I was a first soprano.
I didn't have such a strong voice, but I really want to get better. Considering taking a choir class again sometime...
Superb O.o
We sang this in highschool and i think we did it better only because we were not so proper. We workshoped with Dr. Staheli and even he told us not to bite the t in witness so much!
I had to sing for middleschool choir a week ago at a concert
great
my highschool choir is learning this song for competion
@macsitou I believe the arranger of this version is Jack Halloran
Woah.
@VanSensei it was a mix of 7th,8th, and 9th grade
Except the last note it's a very nice and clean interpretation of the song. Good job :)
@flamehead17 thank you so much!
Im singing this in choir right now, and i've learned that the alto part is very hard!
BRAVISSIMO! I wasn't crazy about the 'sen' vowel sound you created in the first "Samson." Other than that, FLAWLESS!
@MusicMormy16 Thank you
@TheseShoesSoDontFly That note is in the original score; it sounds abrasive on this recording but is actually quite pure and brilliant when heard live :)
1:16 I love you Kai
sounds right to me...
That note sounded like one of those little rings that you blow. You know what I'm talking about? You blow into it, and it slides up to a really high pitch and then goes back down?
that soprano at the end made me laugh out loud
amazing bass on this! lol
Such a good piece, I believe the octave F didn't quite fit the rest of the piece, and because it sounded a little forced, it sounded like it was a little flat. I don't have perfect pitch, I don't have a perfect reflection of songs, it's just an opinion/thought. Other than that, it was an amazing performance!
The multi - talented Seth MacFarlane! Great director.
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im working on this now :)
im in 7th grade and i have to sing this for my all south west try out
@TheseShoesSoDontFly It didn't come across as showing off to me at all. It went perfectly with everything the song was doing. That choir is blessed to have the voice to sing that note, on pitch, and just lite enough....and a straight tone at that. I thought it was Fantastic!
@VanSensei I was hitting lower than F sharp in 7th grade, and then tenor 1 notes. It's really not too big an accomplishment. Depends on the voices at hand.